The Taste of Home Cooking School is Saturday, Nov. 6, at Odell Williamson Auditorium.

Sponsored by The Brunswick Beacon, the event opens for VIP ticket holders at 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. for general admission ticket holders. The day begins with a vendor show, where 20 local vendors will display products and provide information about their businesses and services.

“We have just a really large variety,” Angie Sutton, Beacon advertising director, said.

Brunswick County Schools will receive 50 azaleas to help beautify local schools as part of N.C. Beautiful’s 25th annual Azalea Celebration, according to a press release from the school district.

“The azaleas will be used to help improve the appearance of the front entrance and side street landscaping at Lincoln Elementary, Leland Middle, Southport Elementary, South Brunswick Middle and Waccamaw Schools,” the release states.

Students seeking degrees in elementary education no longer have to leave Brunswick County in order to get diplomas.

Local college officials announced an expanded partnership during a press conference Monday that now enables students in the University of North Carolina/Brunswick Community College two-by-two program to finish the final two years of their educational studies at Brunswick Community College’s Leland Center rather than traveling to the University of North Carolina Wilmington, according to a press release sent by UNCW.

HOLDEN BEACH—Local beach officials plan to once again ask representatives of the North Carolina General Assembly to introduce legislation that would make nonprofit homeowner association clubhouses subject to tax by local jurisdictions.

During last week’s Brunswick Beaches Consortium (BBC) meeting, Holden Beach town officials proposed what they call a “fix for tax loophole” that concerns clubhouses built in a different jurisdiction than the development.

The Asia Society recognizes Supply Elementary School’s initiative to incorporate global studies in its newly published guidebook and considers the school to be an example for schools across the country looking to add diversity into everyday curriculum.

Supply Elementary School is among 46 schools across the country included in “Ready for the World: Preparing Elementary Students for the Global Age,” published by the Asia Society.

Two local brothers were recently sentenced to the North Carolina Department of Corrections as habitual felons.

Assistant district attorney Chris Thomas said Nicholas Lavar Smith and Nathan Smith, both of Bolivia, were recently sentenced to 60-80 months, or five to six and half years, in prison under the state’s habitual felon statute.